Lawrence E. Adjah

Social Infrastructure Initiative

The case, the structural pivot, the studio portfolio, and every way to partner with the Family Dinner Foundation.

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Lawrence E. Adjah Lawrence E. Adjah ✝ MBA  MEd  MDiv
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Social Infrastructure Initiative

BUILDING A RUNWAY
FOR HUMAN
FLOURISHING

Scaling a culture of care for a world in isolation.

Family Dinner Foundation  ·  501(c)(3) EIN 47-1639472 How to give ↓
50K+
Adults reached
40
Global cities
3
Continents
10+
Years impact

Family Dinner Foundation started as simple grassroots gatherings at the dinner table. Over ten years, it grew into a movement of 50,000+ adults across 40 cities and three continents. When the pandemic hit, the gatherings stopped, but the relationships did not. This season forced an evolution, developing the 5C Mutual Care Methodology, now successfully piloted on university campuses and licensed within healthcare institutions.

But demand soon outpaced grassroots delivery. Seeking to scale this culture of care, we launched a Social Infrastructure Technology Studio as an independent entity under the Foundation. I learned to code and built the products myself, testing them within the communities we already serve. We are now operating in a closing window: awareness of the loneliness crisis is at its peak, and institutional demand is rising.

The products in our portfolio are currently in public beta. We are raising runway for the next 12 to 18 months to transition from beta to full market distribution and capture this unique opportunity to build the world's relational infrastructure.

“How do we use technology as a tool for human flourishing, rather than resigning ourselves to a reality where humans have become tools of technology?”
The structural pivot

Under the 501(c)(3) Foundation, our Technology Studio bridges the gap between human need and scalable tools. This structure gives partners a path to contribute to meaningful structural impact with real tax value. We are moving from grassroots gatherings to technology as a tool for human flourishing.

Social Infrastructure Technology Studio portfolio Public beta
001 mbio Synchronous social matching for shared life. Harvard research shows strong social connections increase survival by 50%. Location-based matching, trusted networks, mutual care exchange. mbio.ourfamilydinner.org 002 mbio Meals A dinner registry for the meal itself. Plan a restaurant-sourced dinner, give every guest a part, and see the whole table come together. The original Family Dinner, run at scale. mbio.ourfamilydinner.org/meals 003 mbio Groups Small groups that form themselves. Your people answer a few questions, Groups proposes the groups and the reasons it chose them, and a leader approves before anyone is told. The institutional entry point for churches, campuses, employers and cities. mbio.ourfamilydinner.org/groups 004 mbio Mutual Care The 5C Mutual Care Methodology as working software. A community runs on acts of service, not money. Somebody asks, or somebody notices, because your people wrote down what they love. No points, no scores, no leaderboard. mbio.ourfamilydinner.org/mutualcare 005 mbio Connect Find company while buying the ticket. Contact-confirmed people heading to the same game or showing, coordinating a public meetup before the doors open. mbio.ourfamilydinner.org/connect
Impact contribution

HOW TO GIVE

All gifts are charitable contributions to Family Dinner Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We have multiple giving paths to fit your tax and impact strategy.

01   Direct gift

Cash, check, wire, or stock transfer directly to the Foundation. The simplest path for most partners.

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02   Donor-advised fund

Recommend a grant from your existing DAF for administrative simplicity and immediate tax benefit.

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03   Private foundation grant

Your family or corporate foundation can make a grant to the Foundation's Social Infrastructure Initiative.

Start a conversation
04   Pastor + entrepreneur in residence

Extend a salaried in-house opportunity with your firm to pursue this work and serve as an in-house expert.

Discuss the role
Contact
Lawrence E. Adjah, MBA, M.Ed., M.Div.
Founder and CEO, Family Dinner Foundation, Inc.
Tax status
EntityFamily Dinner Foundation, Inc. Status501(c)(3) nonprofit. Gifts and memberships are tax deductible as allowed by law EIN47-1639472 Address3839 McKinney Avenue, Suite 155-5170, Dallas, Texas 75204
Watch God Work Studios

ADDITIONAL WAYS
TO PARTNER AND ENGAGE

Watch God Work Studios is a separate entity that builds and bills for its own work. It exists to build and steward Kingdom-honoring technologies that glorify God through helping people to better live, delight and serve according to His highest design. Partnership conversations are open and ongoing.

Gifts to Family Dinner Foundation support the Social Infrastructure Initiative, not the products below.

Watch God Work Studios portfolio
001 iToro The only synchronous, live prayer platform in a faith and wellness app market projected to reach $4.8B. Live prayer, voice prayers, prayer archive, Prayer Drop, church communities. itoro-app.com 002 ShepherdOS The operating system for pastors responsible for more people than they can humanly manage. 85% of guests return if contacted within 24 hours; after 72 hours it drops to 15%. Built by a pastor. getshepherdos.com 003 makairos Hide the Word in your heart until you and the Word are one. Scripture returns at the appointed moment, in a human voice, until it rises on its own. makairos.app 004 Humain Relationships treated as infrastructure, because they are. The 24-hour rule, smart call windows, birthday reminders, relationship health at a glance. Privacy-first, so contacts stay on your device. be-humain.com 005 Human RM Send one message as hundreds of private, personal ones. A Mac app that turns a single note into individual iMessages, texts and emails. Merge tags, real photos, open tracking, and no group thread, so nobody sees anyone else. humanrm.com
Other portfolio Private beta
001 LEAS Self-hosted EAS. Build and auto-submit Expo and React Native apps to the App Store and Google Play with one command and one config file, on your own machine or your own cloud fleet. Docs, pricing and the setup wizard live at leas.dev. leas.dev
002 Nyanna Save. Clear. Breathe. Back up the photos and videos filling a phone, review what is safe to let go, and reclaim the space they were holding. In development
003 First Look A screenshot studio for the App Store and Google Play. Design a store screen once, render it at every dimension Apple and Google actually require, and publish the finished sets straight into both consoles. In development
004 White-Label Counseling Software The practice platform behind counseling.lawrenceadjah.com: booking, scheduling, secure video, client records, session notes, intake and billing. Rebuilt so any counselor or coach can run it as their own instead of renting it. In development
The Foundation
Family Dinner Foundation, Inc.

The Social Infrastructure Initiative, the 5C Mutual Care Methodology, and every charitable path above.

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The studio
Watch God Work Studios

For the products on this list, including bringing one of them to your church or institution. Partnership conversations are open and ongoing. This is not a charitable contribution to the Foundation.

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